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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Ehcache vs. GridGain vs. H2GIS vs. Sadas Engine

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteSpatial extension of H2SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments
Primary database modelSearch engineKey-value storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.ehcache.orgwww.gridgain.comwww.h2gis.orgwww.sadasengine.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.ehcache.org/­documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homewww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentation
DeveloperAmazonTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGGridGain Systems, Inc.CNRSSADAS s.r.l.
Initial release20122009200720132006
Current release3.10.0, March 2022GridGain 8.5.18.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercial infofree trial version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, C++, .NetJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexednoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJCacheHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yes infobased on H2no
Triggersnoyes infoCache Event Listenersyes (cache interceptors and events)yesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerShardingnonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyes infoby using Terracotta Serveryes (replicated cache)yes infobased on H2none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesnoSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsyes infobased on H2Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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